AUGUST 8 – SEPTEMBER 21, 2026

Every gesture reaches toward another while resisting it. Between tension and release, collapse and endurance, the work asks whether opposition is something to overcome, or simply the shapes we take while carrying ourselves through the world.  

Antagony brings together a new series of monumental paintings alongside sculpture that examine the physical and psychological friction between opposing forces. Built through an improvisational process of drawing, carving, and layering, these works occupy the unstable territory between body and landscape, containment and release, vulnerability and resilience. Broad automatic charcoal gestures are cut into dense, tactile surfaces, tracing figures that emerge, dissolve, and transform through acts of struggle and becoming. The paintings and sculptures aren’t primarily about abstraction or material experimentation, they’re about embodied experience, and the material process is how that experience becomes visible.

My paintings and sculpture are constructed through a physical dialogue with reclaimed materials. Salvaged house paints, household chemicals, marble dust, wax, charcoal, graphite, and forgotten studio remnants are slathered, scraped, and built into heavily worked surfaces.  I intentionally exploit the chemical reactions, the contrasting viscosities and characteristics of discarded materials, allowing them to form unexpected patterns that I follow to evoke forms. This material process mirrors the emotional terrain of the work itself, where opposing forces are held in tension rather than resolved. Reclaiming materials that have been cast aside keeps the practice grounded, sustainable, and unapologetically raw, allowing the paintings to embody both the physical weight of confrontation and the fragile grace that can emerge from enduring it.